Today’s birthdays

Lord Willoughby de Broke is 83; Mr Martin Adamson, Chairman, Associated British Foods, 2002-09, 82; Prof Sir Ian

Kennedy, QC, Chairman, Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, 2009-16, 80;

Mr Peter Luff, Director-general, Royal Commonwealth Society, 1997-2001, 75; Prof Duncan Haldane, physicist; joint winner, 2016 Nobel Physics Prize, 70;

Kepler Wessels, former South Africa cricket captain, now commentator, 64; Miss Melissa Leo, actress, 61; Mr James Saunders Watson, Lordlieutenant for Northamptonshire, 60; and Mr Grant Shapps, MP, Secretary of State for Transport, 53.

Today is the anniversary of the death of the Duke of Wellington in 1852.